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Artist envisioned what as the antidote to nationalism and the path a more peaceful society?

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International style

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At what Age did kandinsky move to munich to study art?

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Age 30 (1896)

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At what American school did Gropius take a teaching post?

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Harvard Graduate School

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By what, we’re Duchamp’s first paintings as a teenager, inspired?

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Impressionist landscapes

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At whose Berlin firm did Gropius work in 1908?

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Peter Behrens

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By what was the Bauhaus workshop approach inspired by?

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Medieval guilds

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Born in Russia in 1866

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Kandinsky

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Define retinal art.

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Art meant to be consumed visually

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Define conceptual art.

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Art meant to be understood with the mind

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How did Duchamp meet many avant-grade writers and artists?

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Through his brothers.

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Gropius’s ideals for a new architectural form became to be known as?

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International Style

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How long did kandinsky travel with Gabrielle Munter?

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4 years (1904-1908)

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How did Kandinsky’s landscape paintings change after Marnau?

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They became more abstract

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In what year and where was Gropius appointed director of an important arts school?

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1919- Weimer, Germany

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In what year did Kandinsky move to the small village of Murnau?

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1908

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Kandinsky returned to Moscow to study what?

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Law and Economics

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To where and when did Duchamp submit Fountain?

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The Society of Independent Artists 1917

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Like Duchamp and Kandinsky, who was interested in developing theoretical approaches to modern art and design?

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Gropius

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What did Gropius and Marcel Breuer design together?

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The Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

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What did Gropius die as and in what year?

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A naturalized citizen of the US–1969

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What did Gropius rename his art school?

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The Bauhaus School

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What did the cubists not like about Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”?

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It’s title. They thought it was mockery.

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What do Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hoch, and Francis Picabia all have in common?

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They all moved to Zurich in opposition of war and were some of the key figures in the Dada Movement.

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What do some people believe LPWY represents?
War or rebirth
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What does Bauhaus roughly translate to?
"House of building" or "school of building"
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What happened to kandinsky in 1921?
He was invited to teach at Bauhaus
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What happened to Kandinsly when WWI broke out?
He was forced to leave germany and gabrielle.
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What is does Dada mean? And in what language?
"Hobbyhorse" in French
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What is the title of Kandisnky's painting?
Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)
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What materials were used to build the Bauhaus?
Concrete and glass
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What motif did kandinsky often repeat?
Emphasizing color and flattening the illusion of space
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What object was used in Duchamp's "In the Advance of the Broken Arm?"
A snow shovel
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What pseudonym did Duchamp use for Fountain?
R. Mutt
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What was Duchamp's first ready-made?
Bicycle Wheel (1913)
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What rejected superfluous detail?
International Style
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What was ironic about the Bauhaus School's name?
There were no architecture classes taught
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What was Gropius's last major work?
The Tower East in Shaker Heights, Ohio
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What was Kandisnky's radical shift toward?
COMPLETE abstraction
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What was significant about the lines at the Bauhaus?
They were intentionally asymmetrical
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What was LPWY's date & measurments?
1911-1914 31 x 39 5/8 inches
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What was the name of Duchamp's school in Paris?
Academie Julian
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What was the title and volume number of the Dada journal that published the reactions to "fountains" rejection from the society's group show?
"The Blind Man", Volume 2 (May 1917)
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What were the grounds did the Society proclaim for rejecting Fountain?
1) it was immoral, or vulgar 2) It was plagiarism (a plain piece of plumbing)
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What were the three main buildings at the Bauhaus?
The workshop, the studio building, and the vocational school
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What year did Gropius leave the Bauhaus?
1928
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When and where did Kandisnky die?
In Paris in 1944
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When did Duchamp die?
October 1968
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When did Kandinsky's work began to gravitate to abstract, geometric forms?
After the 1917 revolution
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When was Kandinsky named a degenerate and by who?
in 1933, by the nazis
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When was Kandinsky's Blue rider period? And what was its german name?
1911-1914 Der Blaue Reiter
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Where and when did the Dada Movement originate?
Zurich, Switzerland (1916)
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Where did Duchamp first submit "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2"?
Salon des Independants
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Where did Kandinsky meet Gabrielle Munter?
Phalanaxschule
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Where did Kandinsky spend his childhood?
Odessa
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Where did the Bauhaus move to in 1925?
Dessau, German
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Where was "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2" shown in 1913?
The Armory Show in New York
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Where was Gropius born?
Berlin
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Which artist argued that an artists very selection of an object transformed it from a utilitarian good into something for aesthetic contemplation?
Marcel Duchamp
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Which artist chose not to identify with any one group?
Duchamp
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Which artist constantly questioned the means of artistic production and quickly moved from one kind of art-making to the other?
Marcel Duchamp
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Which artist developed a major fascination with chess?
Duchamp
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Which artist had a minor heart issue that prevented hi, from being called for military service in WWI?
Marcel Duchamp
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Which artist left nazi Germany in 1934?
Gropius
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Which artist sought "to put art back in the service of mind?"
Marcel Duchamp
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Which artist struggled with drawing and holding a pencil?
Gropius
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Which artist used satire and humor to break down the established ideas about art and its meaning?
Duchamp
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How were Duchamp's paintings different from other cubists?
He showed his figures in motion.
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Which artist was an architect?
Walter Gropius
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Which artist was called to serve on the western front, and was wounded?
Gropius
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Which artist worked closely with surrealist artists to produce treatises on movement?
Duchamp
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Which artist worked with Maxwell Fry in Great Britain?
Gropius
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Which Bauhaus colleague accompanied Gropius at his teaching post in America?
Marcel Breuer
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Which group believed that rational thought had created the bourgeois capitalist society?
Dada
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Which group of artists believed in creating "anti-art?"
The Dada
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Which groups goal was to host exhibitions showcasing the work of avant-garde artists and claimed to be open to any artist who could pay the membership and exhibition fee?
The Society of Independent Artists
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Which Movement rejected reason and order and embraced irrationality and nonsense?
The Dada Movement
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Which movement sought a universal style of art production that was free of historical and nationalistic references that could appeal to human spirituality at its core?
De Stijl Movement in Holland
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Which of Walter Gropius's relatives were also architects?
His father and great-uncle
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Which friends of Duchamp were also part of the Dada Movement?
Man Ray and Francis Picabia
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Who came from a long line of artists?
Duchamp
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Who did Kandinsky marry?
Nine Von Andreyeskaya
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Who photographed "Fountain" in 1917
Alfred Stieglitz
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Who popularized a design of door handle and the sans serif font?
Gropius
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Who was a board member and director of the 1917 exhibition that rejected "Fountain?"
Marcel Duchamp
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Who was born in the region of upper Normandy, France?
Duchamp
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Who/what was Kandinsky influenced by?
Paul Gauguin, Matisse, and Fauvism
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Why did Kandisnkys work become smaller?
There was a shortage of larger canvases
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Why did non-western art interest Kandinsky?
It was more spiritual
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With which movement was Marcel Duchamp closely associated with?
The New York Dada Movement

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